Analyst Data Governance

Category/Area of Expertise: HRIS
Job Requisition: 458657
Address: USA-MA-Quincy-1385 Hancock Street
Store Code: HR Reporting & Analytics (5135606)
Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, is part of the U.S. family of brands, which includes five leading omnichannel grocery brands - Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. Our associates support the brands with a wide range of services, including Finance, Legal, Sustainability, Commercial, Digital and E-commerce, Technology and more.
The HR Data Governance Team is tasked with maintaining the accuracy, security, and compliance of HR data across Databricks and Microsoft Fabric environments. This team is responsible for overseeing data quality, metadata management, and data lineage through tools like Ataccama, Unity Catalog, and Fabric Data Catalog. They also manage Row-Level Security (RLS) and access governance within HR reporting workspaces.
The team incorporates governance throughout the entire HR reporting lifecycle, from data validation to certification. This approach ensures that all HR datasets and Power BI reports comply with enterprise standards and regulatory requirements, including submissions like the EEO-1 and Department of Labor reports.
Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and enforcement of HR data governance policies to ensure compliance with enterprise standards, audit, and regulatory requirements.
• Define, monitor, and enhance data quality rules in Ataccama for critical HR datasets.
• Oversee and validate data quality across Databricks Silver, Gold, and Platinum layers to ensure accuracy and completeness before publication.
• Investigate root causes of data quality issues, track remediation progress, and collaborate with Data Engineering on sustainable process improvements.
• Deliver recurring Data Quality & Compliance dashboards highlighting lineage integrity, remediation status, and governance KPIs.
• Maintain and continuously update metadata and lineage documentation across Databricks, Unity Catalog, and Fabric Data Catalog.
• Define and align business and technical definitions across Ataccama and Fabric glossaries to ensure consistent terminology and traceability.
• Partner with Data Model and Visualization Analysts to enforce schema consistency, standardized measures, and common naming conventions.
• Communicate lineage and schema changes related to model updates, new deployments, or structural modifications.
• Govern the Row-Level Security (RLS) framework for HR data in Power BI and Fabric, ensuring alignment with HR role-based personas.
• Lead quarterly access and security reviews with stakeholders to verify group assignments, permissions, and compliance documentation.
• Define and enforce data access policies through Unity Catalog and Azure AD groups, ensuring complete audit evidence.
• Serve as the primary governance liaison for audit requests, compliance reviews, and data certification documentation.
• Integrate governance checkpoints into the HR Reporting Lifecycle from peer review through certification and release.
• Collaborate with the Senior Data Visualization Analyst to ensure reports meet RLS, lineage, and certification standards prior to release.
• Partner with Data Analysts and Automation Developers to operationalize governance monitoring and automation using Power Automate and Ataccama workflows.
• Act as the HR domain subject matter expert (SME) for data governance across enterprise data councils and cross-functional forums.
• Mentor Data Analysts support governance and model validation to strengthen data quality ownership and best practices.
• Lead initiatives to automate governance documentation, lineage updates, and exception reporting.
• Represent HR Reporting & Analytics in global collaboration efforts with People Insights, Data Engineering, and HR Compliance & Innovation teams

Qualification:

• Proactively looks for solutions and anticipates needs to develop new or revised processes. Provides fully developed work.
• Proactively looks for system and technical solutions and anticipates needs to develop new or revised ways to conduct analysis, configure and design processes to improve efficiency and accuracy.
• Ability to perform most complex analytical tasks related to comparing foundation data, role permissions, configuration, and business rules to determine root cause of error.
• Ability to recommend practical corrective actions and implement actions on analysis provided. Able to identify technical solutions to help solve problems.
• Direct oversight on RLS configuration within Power BI and Azure AD integration.
• Serves as a project lead, partnering with senior IT, business and HR leaders providing HRIS expertise to solve complex business problems to meet business needs.
• Ability to manage and maintain complex system configuration to support design and architecture direction
• Ability to perform complex system configuration testing and tasks for maintaining a network of HR Systems and applications.
• Ability to partner with global counterparts to create capabilities supporting the entire organization.
• Designs, develops, codes, tests, debugs and/or customizes solutions for own business partners.
• Applies best practices and advanced methodologies, including functional requirements, business processes, changing development and technology environments.
• Ensures that application improvements are successfully implemented.
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and related work experience.
• Power BI or Related Certification Required
• SuccessFactors Certification Preferred
• MBA preferred
• 7+ years of HRIS or significant proven analytical experience.
• 3+ years of Power BI Reporting or Equivalent Configuration Experience Required
• Critical and System Thinking
• Advanced MS OFffice - Excel and PowerBI
• Written and Spoken communcation - Ability to write requirements documents
• Strong Analytical Skills
• Strong Attention to Details
• HR System and Configuration Knowlege, Advanced understanding of SQL Scripting
• Strong Presnetation Skills
• Aptitude for comprehending and leveraging both HR and technical concepts for continuous improvement and process re-design.
• Negotiation Skills
• DAX Coding

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At Ahold Delhaize USA, we provide services to one of the largest portfolios of grocery companies in the nation, and we're actively seeking top talent.
Our team shares a common motivation to drive change, take ownership and enable our brands to better care for their customers. We thrive on supporting great local grocery brands and their strategies.
Our associates are the heartbeat of our organization. We are committed to offering a welcoming work environment where all associates can succeed and thrive. Guided by our values of courage, care, teamwork, integrity (and even a little humor), we are dedicated to being a great place to work.
We believe in collaboration, curiosity, and continuous learning in all that we think, create and do. While building a culture where personal and professional growth are just as important as business growth, we invest in our people, empowering them to learn, grow and deliver at all levels of the business.